Starring: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance
Director: Charles Chaplin
Production Company: Mutual USA, 1917
Duration: 23 minutes
Film Print: B&W print available from Faber Music
(Film Speed: c.21 frames per second)
Premiere with Davis's score: 2002, Bedford
16 or 17 Players: l(=picc).1.2.l - 2.1.1.0 - perc(l or 2) inc. drum kit - pno -
single strings (1.1.1.1.1)
Easy Street introduces the tramp who, lured into a Street Mission by the hymns, reforms for the love of Edna and joins the police-force. He gasses the local bully with a bent lamp-post and becomes a hero. (The set was designed by Chaplin to recreate the south-London slums of his childhood.)